Francois Etienne Kellermann

François Étienne de Kellermann (4 August 1770-2 June 1835) was a general of France during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Francois Etienne de Kellermann was born to Francois-Christophe Kellermann, a French nobleman of Saxon descent. Francois Etienne served in his father's regiment of cavalry and he fought in the Alps and Italy from 1793 to 1797. In the 1800 Battle of Marengo he led one of the most famous cavalry charges in history, accompanied by Louis Charles Antoine Desaix's infantry attack. He was at once made General of Division, due to his efforts and his success in routing the Austrian army, by his superior officer, General Napoleon Bonaparte.

On the left flank of the French army with his cavalry at the 1805 Battle of Austerlitz, he played a major role in the charge up the Pratzen Heights. In 1807 he was sent to Portugal to fight under Andoche Junot and in 1809 he won the Battle of Alba de Tormes in a 3,000-man cavalry charge against the Spanish. His rapacity was notorious, but Napoleon once told him that he thought nothing of him but his brilliance at Marengo after Kellermann gave unconvincing excuses. He fell ill in 1812 during the French invasion of Russia, and from 1813 to 1814 he fought under Napoleon in Germany.

In 1815, Kellermann rejoined Napoleon during the Hundred Days and led a cavalry attack during the Battle of Quatre Bras on 16 June. His attack was costly due to the use of British infantry squares, and he was unhorsed in battle. At the Battle of Waterloo two days later, he was wounded leading a charge against the King's German Legion between Hougoumont and La Haye Sainte. In 1820 he succeeded his father as Duke of Valmy, but was disgraced under the Second Restoration. He died in 1835 and was succeeded as Duke of Valmy by Francois Christophe Edmond Kellermann, whose death in 1868 ended the title.